Fix `#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H' stanza in some stand-alone tests.
[bpt/guile.git] / lib / malloca.c
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ffca4c22 1/* Safe automatic memory allocation.
49114fd4 2 Copyright (C) 2003, 2006-2007, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
4
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8 any later version.
9
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
18
19#include <config.h>
20
21/* Specification. */
22#include "malloca.h"
23
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24#include "verify.h"
25
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26/* Use the system functions, not the gnulib overrides in this file. */
27#undef malloc
28
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29/* The speed critical point in this file is freea() applied to an alloca()
30 result: it must be fast, to match the speed of alloca(). The speed of
31 mmalloca() and freea() in the other case are not critical, because they
32 are only invoked for big memory sizes. */
33
34#if HAVE_ALLOCA
35
36/* Store the mmalloca() results in a hash table. This is needed to reliably
37 distinguish a mmalloca() result and an alloca() result.
38
39 Although it is possible that the same pointer is returned by alloca() and
40 by mmalloca() at different times in the same application, it does not lead
41 to a bug in freea(), because:
42 - Before a pointer returned by alloca() can point into malloc()ed memory,
43 the function must return, and once this has happened the programmer must
44 not call freea() on it anyway.
45 - Before a pointer returned by mmalloca() can point into the stack, it
46 must be freed. The only function that can free it is freea(), and
47 when freea() frees it, it also removes it from the hash table. */
48
49#define MAGIC_NUMBER 0x1415fb4a
50#define MAGIC_SIZE sizeof (int)
51/* This is how the header info would look like without any alignment
52 considerations. */
53struct preliminary_header { void *next; char room[MAGIC_SIZE]; };
54/* But the header's size must be a multiple of sa_alignment_max. */
55#define HEADER_SIZE \
56 (((sizeof (struct preliminary_header) + sa_alignment_max - 1) / sa_alignment_max) * sa_alignment_max)
57struct header { void *next; char room[HEADER_SIZE - sizeof (struct preliminary_header) + MAGIC_SIZE]; };
0f00f2c3 58verify (HEADER_SIZE == sizeof (struct header));
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59/* We make the hash table quite big, so that during lookups the probability
60 of empty hash buckets is quite high. There is no need to make the hash
61 table resizable, because when the hash table gets filled so much that the
62 lookup becomes slow, it means that the application has memory leaks. */
63#define HASH_TABLE_SIZE 257
64static void * mmalloca_results[HASH_TABLE_SIZE];
65
66#endif
67
68void *
69mmalloca (size_t n)
70{
71#if HAVE_ALLOCA
72 /* Allocate one more word, that serves as an indicator for malloc()ed
73 memory, so that freea() of an alloca() result is fast. */
74 size_t nplus = n + HEADER_SIZE;
75
76 if (nplus >= n)
77 {
78 char *p = (char *) malloc (nplus);
79
80 if (p != NULL)
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81 {
82 size_t slot;
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1cd4fffc 84 p += HEADER_SIZE;
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86 /* Put a magic number into the indicator word. */
87 ((int *) p)[-1] = MAGIC_NUMBER;
ffca4c22 88
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89 /* Enter p into the hash table. */
90 slot = (unsigned long) p % HASH_TABLE_SIZE;
91 ((struct header *) (p - HEADER_SIZE))->next = mmalloca_results[slot];
92 mmalloca_results[slot] = p;
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94 return p;
95 }
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96 }
97 /* Out of memory. */
98 return NULL;
99#else
100# if !MALLOC_0_IS_NONNULL
101 if (n == 0)
102 n = 1;
103# endif
104 return malloc (n);
105#endif
106}
107
108#if HAVE_ALLOCA
109void
110freea (void *p)
111{
112 /* mmalloca() may have returned NULL. */
113 if (p != NULL)
114 {
115 /* Attempt to quickly distinguish the mmalloca() result - which has
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116 a magic indicator word - and the alloca() result - which has an
117 uninitialized indicator word. It is for this test that sa_increment
118 additional bytes are allocated in the alloca() case. */
ffca4c22 119 if (((int *) p)[-1] == MAGIC_NUMBER)
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120 {
121 /* Looks like a mmalloca() result. To see whether it really is one,
122 perform a lookup in the hash table. */
123 size_t slot = (unsigned long) p % HASH_TABLE_SIZE;
124 void **chain = &mmalloca_results[slot];
125 for (; *chain != NULL;)
126 {
127 if (*chain == p)
128 {
129 /* Found it. Remove it from the hash table and free it. */
130 char *p_begin = (char *) p - HEADER_SIZE;
131 *chain = ((struct header *) p_begin)->next;
132 free (p_begin);
133 return;
134 }
135 chain = &((struct header *) ((char *) *chain - HEADER_SIZE))->next;
136 }
137 }
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138 /* At this point, we know it was not a mmalloca() result. */
139 }
140}
141#endif